| All SSL certificates for linux-mips.org have been refreshed. As a reminder, linux-mips.org uses [http://www.cacert.org CAcert] certificates and the root certificate for CAcert.org (available [http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3 here] is not included with all operating systems and browsers yet so you may have to manually install it if you want to use linux-mips.org's services encryptedly.

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| During the upcoming weekend linux-mips.org is going to move to a new host system. This will result in some downtime.

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| Various git repositories have moved from <tt>/pub/scm/*.git</tt> to <tt>/pub/scm/ralf/*.git</tt>. You don't have to reclone your tree, just fix .git/config.

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| Top 10 reasons why ACTA is bad:

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Also kernel.org is slowly returning to full action; the Linux/MIPS repository there is back.

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# Was created in secrecy and kept opaque, despite many requests for release. This violates the principle of an open and transparent democracy.

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| 2011-10-29

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# Advocates censorship on the internet and attempts to quash the concept of free media and information.

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| Nobody really made a big mark in their calendar but 20 years ago, on 1 October [[1991]] the MIPS [[R4000]] was announced which along with its later refinement, the [[R4600]], was among the two processors supported initially by Linux/MIPS. At first only 32-bit kernel and userland were supported but a 64-bit kernel with full 32-bit binaries compatibility was added in [[1999]] initially for the [[IP27|Origin 2000]] which with 128 processors for a while was the biggest multi-processor system Linux ever had ran on and a little later a 64-bit userland with focus on high end embedded systems was added. 64-bit? An old story.

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# Makes it illegal to link to any site that breaches copyright law, making it nearly impossible to maintain openly editable sites such as Wikipedia or this wiki.

# Forces ISPs to violate the privacy of their customers and store logs of their online activity, without warrant or probable cause - tantamount to online wiretapping.

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| linux-mips.org's entire software will be upgraded next week. This will result in some downtime.

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# Uses vague language which can be twisted to serve the agendas of individual cases.

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# Puts control of such measures into a single "ACTA committee", which has the power to make legal decisions without vote or consultation of member states.

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| 2011-09-07

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# Allows the ACTA committee to modify the bill as they please, without vote. Essentially hands them a blank cheque with which they can write their own laws.

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| The recent [http://lwn.net/Articles/457142/ compromise] of a kernel.org servers has resulted in some of kernel.org's servers providing DNS service to linux-mips.org becoming unavailable. A temporary solution is now in place.

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# Does not impose any real regulation on sanctions, penalties or legal decisions. This makes the system open to corruption.

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# Stifles creativity and innovation using scare tactics, maintaining a status quo of large organisations that control particular markets.

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| For those who still download kernel [[wikipedia:Tar_(file_format)|tarballs]] all files below <tt>/pub/linux/mips/kernel</tt> have been converted to [[wikipedia:Xz|xz]] format. Xz compression typically saves about one third over [[wikipedia:Gzip|gzip]].

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This affects linux-mips.org's wiki directly which is why a normally purely technical, unpolitical site like ''linux-mips.org'' has such a call for action. Act now: [http://act-on-acta.eu act-on-acta.eu], [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=222927430112 Act Against ACTA on Facebook], [http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA How to act against ACTA], [http://www.google.com/search?q=act+against+acta more that YOU can do].

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Here's a law processor Michael Geist's [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8011895.stm rant about ACTA], an [http://action.ffii.org/acta/Analysis analysis] of Acta.

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| Due to wiki spam in the last time email address verification has been activated. This also affects owners of existing accounts.

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| Our friends over at [[wikipedia:MIPS Technologies|MIPS Technologies, Inc.]] have a few news items that may be of interest to Linux/MIPS users:

| In the past this place on the wiki's frontpage has mostly been used for site news which was a bit of a waste. So if you think you have any interesting items, please post them to [mailto:ralf@linux-mips.org Ralf] for consideration. [[wikipedia:MIPS Technologies|MIPS Technologies, Inc.]] makes the beginning.